Cfp: Special issue on subdivision surfaces (CAGD)

[Leif Kobbelt (kobbelt@mpi-sb.mpg.de)]

#18 Cfp: Special issue on subdivision surfaces (CAGD)

Call for papers

Computer Aided Geometric Design

(Elsevier Journal)

Special Issue on Subdivision Surfaces

Subdivision algorithms for the generation of freeform curves and
surfaces have become a mature technique in CAGD and Computer Graphics.
Especially in surface design, subdivision schemes generalize the
concept of shape modeling by control vertices with local influence to
arbitrary control meshes. This allows the designer to build and modify
a globally smooth surface with arbitrary topology as one single piece
with no internal compatibility conditions to be maintained.

After the first subdivision schemes have been proposed in the late
70s, the approach soon gained popularity due to its high efficiency,
simple algorithmic structure, and quality of the generated surfaces.
In contrast, it took quite some time before the theoretic foundations
for the analysis had been developed.

Driven by new applications with increasing requirements, subdivision
algorithms are still a hot topic of current research. For example,
sophisticated smoothing techniques are sought to further enhance
fairness, and interactive multi-scale design techniques are developed
to improve manageability in CAD/CAM systems. Theoretical
investigations concentrate on further refinement and extensions of
existing results, and on the derivation of special subdivision schemes
with prescribed properties.

To provide a platform for the presentation of recent progress in the
field, CAGD is planning a special issue on the theory and practise of
subdivision algorithms for surfaces of arbitrary topology. In
particular, the following topics are of interest:

- Theoretical foundations
- Multiresolution analysis and editing
- Simulation of physical problems (e.g. FE applications)
- Interpolation and approximation
- New schemes with special properties
- Implementation issues (e.g. data structures, fast evaluation)
- CAD/CAM applications (e.g. intersection, conversion)

We invite researchers from various fields including geometry,
approximation theory, numerical analysis, and computer graphics to
submit original work in triplicate by

June 30, 2000

to one of the two guest editors:

Ulrich REIF
TU Darmstadt
Schlossgartenstra{ss}e 7
64289 Darmstadt
Germany

Leif KOBBELT
MPI for Computer Sciences
Im Stadtwald
66123 Saarbr{"u}cken
Germany